Abstracts Sell For £536,500 1964

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Full title reads: "Sotheby's. Abstracts Sell For £536,500".

Sotheby's Auction House, London. Sale of paintings by Russian abstract artist Vasily Kandinsky.

GV People going into Sotheby's.

GV Sale in progress. CU painting which is sold to 'George' who bought it by phone for...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
54538
Sort Number:
64/055
Time in/Out:
01:56:22:00 / 01:57:18:00
Canister:
64/55
Film ID:
1763.18
Issue Date:
06/07/1964

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